Karen Lardi

Don't know if I am in thr right place to receive help with my computer, bu there goes.

I am having a problem with system idle process. It is taking up 98-100% of the cpu ussage. I have run a registry fix, spyware scan, defrag, ect...nothing has had an effect on the problem. What am I mssing???!!!

Regards,
Karen

LordOfLA

This is normal. Nothing to worry about

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Karen Lardi

Thanks for your reply. Only problem is this is affecting the performance. Also receiveng lots of fatal errors, and applications just not working until the cpu stops peaking at 100%.

madmatt

Impossible. That process isn't really consuming any processing power; it's where Windows puts the idle usage.

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Karen Lardi

OK then. Got any ideas as to why the processor seems to be tapped out? Also IE is not functioning properly?

LordOfLA

Download and run "Hijack THis" from here: http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en...ols/hijackthis

Paste the report it makes into a post here and we'll see what we can do.

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kcnychief

Might I also suggest reading this thread -

http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php...m+idle+process

Gives some background on the system idle process.

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lancer

i cant remember where i got this from or if i wrote it, but it works on my pc to get rid of all useless background tasks, i use it before doing processing.

Attached Files

quit passive xp.zip (177 Bytes, 35 views)

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fitz

i wonder if he/she has picked up a piece of malware that kicks off a process named "system Idle"

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Bman

*off topicish

Once in awhile there comes along a question that I can answer, and well you guys take away my fun. DANG

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